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- Title
Epidote dissolution–precipitation during viscous granular flow: a micro-chemical and isotope study.
- Authors
Peverelli, Veronica; Berger, Alfons; Wille, Martin; Pettke, Thomas; Lanari, Pierre; Villa, Igor Maria; Herwegh, Marco
- Abstract
Deformation of polymineralic aggregates can be accommodated by viscous granular flow, a process mediated by the interplay among intracrystalline plasticity and dissolution–precipitation, each active in specific minerals under given P – T conditions. Some rock-forming minerals like quartz and feldspars have been intensively studied in terms of deformation processes. Instead, the deformation behavior of epidote and its role during viscous granular flow is not well investigated, although this mineral is ubiquitous in granitic rocks deforming under greenschist-facies conditions. In this contribution, we provide microstructural and geochemical evidence for the occurrence of dissolution–precipitation of epidote during deformation of an epidote–quartz vein. The main part of the vein is deformed, producing a fold, which is visible due to relicts of primary-growth layering inside the vein. The deformation mechanisms active during deformation include dynamic recrystallization of quartz by subgrain rotation recrystallization, producing grain size reduction in the primary vein quartz. Recrystallization occurs contemporaneously with dissolution and (re)precipitation of epidote and quartz grain boundary sliding, leading to a combined process described as viscous granular flow. The combination of grain boundary sliding and dissolution locally and repeatedly produces creep cavities. These represent not only loci for nucleation of new epidote grains at the expense of dissolved ones, but they also allow fluid-mediated transport of elements. The same trace element patterns between old epidote relicts and newly formed grains, with much narrower variability in the latter, indicate a process of chemical homogenization. The nature of the fluid that mediates deformation is investigated using Pb–Sr isotope data of epidote, which suggest that deformation is assisted by internally recycled fluids with the addition of a syn-kinematic external fluid component.
- Subjects
GRANULAR flow; VISCOUS flow; CHEMICAL processes; EPIDOTE; QUARTZ; ROCK-forming minerals
- Publication
Solid Earth, 2022, Vol 13, Issue 11, p1803
- ISSN
1869-9510
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/se-13-1803-2022